When you go to a thrift store to look for games or hardware or accessories or whatever, what do you expect to pay?
For myself personally, I expect to pay about 40 percent less or more than I would pay for the same item at a place like GameStop.
But it's funny cause some times it just doesn't work that way. Sometimes I will find games that are way, way cheaper than they should be, but I also find games that are way, way more expensive than they should be.
It's weird.
Also, I tend to find tons and tons of Genesis sports games. Usually way over priced too. Like $2.99 for a loose Tommy Lasorda Baseball cart for the Genny. The same game could be found at a GameCrazy for like 99 cents.
But then I will find a Super Mario Bros 3 cart for the NES for a quarter. So you never know.
But it's just hard for me to pay more than 2 bucks for a game at a Thrift Store, unless it's a game that I've been dying to get anyways. Then I would be willing to pay more for that.
As for Hardware, alot of times the hardware prices are out of whack too. Just today I saw a Genesis with no accessories for like $26.99. I could get that on Ebay for 5 bucks or less.
Of course the people making the decisions on the prices don't know anything about the value of video games, so it's understandable. They do continually lower the prices after stuff has been there for awhile, but I'm sure that alot of Used Game Store owners end up scooping up the stuff that's really worth anything.
You almost have to go by the Thrifts every other day to real stay on top of it.
Today I got Mortal Kombat for the Genesis for 99 cents. It has the case and the game but no manual. I don't necessarily consider that a score at all. That game probably goes for like $3.99 at Gamestop, so it's nice to get it for a buck, but it isn't like a home run or anything.